Running support for flying-machines.



M. A. PARISANO.

RUNNING SUPPORT FOR FLYING MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 21, mm

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APPLICATION FILED DEG.21,1911.

Patented Jan. '7, 1913.

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ATENT OFFICE.

RUNNING SUPPORT FOR FLYING-MACHINES.

Specification of Iietters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7, 1913.

Application filed December 21, 1911. Serial No. 667,155.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, MICHAEL A. PARISANO, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Running Supports for Flying-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the a rt to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has relation to an improved running support for flying machines of the heavier-than-air type.

In my U. S. Patent No. 987,596, granted to me March 21st 1911 I have described aform of yielding running support comprising wheels and skids so arranged that a flying machine, in descending to the ground, is received yieldingly, thereby avoiding shock.

My present invention has for its object an improvement over the running support described in my former patent aforesaid, whereby any unevenness in the ground is made harmless and danger of upsetting is obviated.

My invention also involves an arrangement for better receiving the sidewise impact to which machines of this kind are often subjected on striking the ground.

The invention is illustrated in a preferred form only in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is aside view of one form of machine provided with my present improvement, Fig. 2 is a front vlew of the same, Fig. 3 is an enlarged front view of the running support'partly in section, and Fig. 4 is a cross section of the bars preferably used in my frame.

The superstructure may be of any desired form appropriate to machines of this kind. lhe frame work 10 of the machine is provided with braces 11 supporting the usual skids 12, normally out of contact with the ground. y

At each end of the machine vlt-provide two truck's carrying each two wheels, and pro: vided with suitable yielding supports. In the preferred form. of my improvement which is shown in the drawings, each.- truck comprises a cross bar 13, pivoted at its middie or near it, as at 14, to a plunger 15,

which enters and is guided within 'a, sleeve 16, by aplston 17 or equivalent means. I also prefer to supply a guide for the inner end of the plunger 15, in the form, for instance, of a socket 18, wherein the plunger fits. lVithin the sleeve 16, a strong spiral spring 19, abutting upon the piston or collar 17, afior'ds a yielding support for the truck. The degree of tilting of the cross bar 13 on its pivot 14 is preferably limited by asuitably shaped collar 20, on the plunger 15,-said collar being preferably annular in form and presenting preferably a beveled bearing surface to the impact of suitable projections 21 on the cross bar, whereby the degree of tilting of such cross bar is limited as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3.

The supporting wheels'22 have suitable bearings at the outer ends of the cross bars 13, and I prefer to arrange each outer wheel on each cross bar or truck, so that its plane normally makes a distinct angle with the vertical, whereby the lower portion of the wheel is made to project'outward. This ar rangement insures a safe and secure resistance to the sidewise thrust to which these supporting wheels are very usually subjected in practice. Also I prefer to thicken or reinforce the outer extremity of each truck, as shown, to further provide against these expected shocks.

It is an important feature of my invention that I provide means whereby the tendency of machines of this kind to upset when landing upon a side hill or other uneven ground is automatically. counteracted. For this purpose, the inner end of each tilting cross bar 13 is connected to one end of a cable or cord 23, which, after running over suitably placed pulleys 24, has its other end attached to a spring 25. By this means the inner end of each cross bar 13 is given an upward tendency, which is normally corrected, however by the springs 26 which are attached at 27 to the main frame and at- 28 to theouter sides of all the cross bars 13. It will be seen that, iri case of landing upon such a side hill as is indicated in dotted lines in Fig.3, the canted or inclined outer wheel on the right side. in that figure will first strike, and, on the cross bar 13 being tilted as shown, both wheels on the right hand truck will be on the ground. Under these conditions there would ordinarily be a strong tendency for the left side to rise, and

for the machine to be tipped over toward the right. By the use of my invention, however, this tendency is counteracted, since the depression of the left side of the cross bar 13 at once transmits through the cord or cable 23 a strong pull to the spring 25. The

effect of this operation is, of course to pull down the left side of the machine and prevent tipping over.

In Fig. 4 is shown a cross section of the form of bars which I prefer to use in constructing my framework and braces. this figure a holloynortubular bar is shown which is narrower in adirection across the machine than in the direction of movement of the device. A tube of this kindv gives increased stifiness' in the linerof progress, and at the same time offers less resistance to passage through the j air than ordinary round tubes orbars.

Various changes may be made in my machine without departing from the spirit of my invention and I am not to be understood as limiting myself to the details here-in shown and described.

1. In a. flying machine, a main frame, trucks pivotally mounted on opposite sides thereof and adapted to swing transversely,

and wheels at opposite ends of said trucks, substantlally as described. 2. In a flying machine, a main frame,

' trucks pivotally mounted .on opposite sides thereof and adapted to swing transversely,

wheels at opposite ends of said trucks, and an lndependent yielding support between each truck and said main frame, substantially as described.

3. running support for flying machines comprising in combination a truck pivoted so as be tiltable transversely, wheels at oppos ts ends thereof and stops adapted to limit the degree of tilting of said truck, subfstantially as described.

' 1. running support for flying machines comprising two trucks side by side pivotally mounted for lateral vibration at each end of the framework, and wheels at oppo-' site ends of each'truck, substantially as described.

sides of its pivotal point, substantially as described.

.6. Arunning support for flying machines comprising in combination a truck pivoted between the inner end of said truck and said spring, substantially as described.

7. A running support for flying machines comprising in combination a truck pivoted to one side of the framework so as to be tiltable transversely, a spring at the opposite side of the machine, a connection between the inner end .of said truck and said spring, a spring at the same side of the framework'as said truck and a connection between said latter spring and the outer end of said truck, substantially as described.

8. A running support for flying machines comprising in combination a sleeve, a plunger movable within the same, a truck pivoted on said plunger and a stop collar on said plunger adapted to limit the degree of tilting of said truck, substantially as de-v scribed.

9. In a running support for flying machines, a tilting truck, a support to which the same is pivoted, a stop collar on said support and a projection on said -truck adapted to abut against said collar, substantially as described.

It). In a running support forflying machines, a tilting truck, a support to which the same is pivoted, a stop collar on said support, a stop collar on said support having a beveled abutting face and projections on opposite sides of said truck adapted to make contact with said beveled face, substantially as described.

11. In arunning support for flying machines, atilting truck with wheels mounted under one side of the framework, a resilient cord connecting the inner end of said truck with the opposite side of the framework and a cord connecting the outer end of the truck with that side of the framework which carries said truck, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my slgnaturein presence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL A. PARISANO. 1

I Witnesses:

. H. s. memes, KATHARINE C. 

